(ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) AS A YOUNG MUSICIAN, I had no idea how to practice new pieces efficiently, in terms of time spent, and effectively, in terms of embedding correct vocal habits. I'm slightly ashamed to admit that when I finally began to employ strategies that decreased learning time and increased successful performance, I was in graduate school. Nor am I alone, as I have discovered from numerous conversations with colleagues about their own instrumental and vocal education. It would be interesting to discover how many music teachers include structured practice strategies when assigning a new piece of music. Moreover, since we teachers don't go home with our students and observe their practice, we're generally in the dark about how they spend their practice time. But, as my colleagues will also attest, it is obvious in our teaching studios when a singer has not been using practice time efficiently or effectively. As a matter of fact, some research projects have indeed put a "fly on the wall" of the practice room, whether in the presence of an actual person1 or as recording equipment.2 Since most music teachers are unlikely to undertake such a project themselves, however, it is essential that we at least provide guidance in the studio to aid students in their home practice. There is now a significant body of research demonstrating the importance of deliberate practice in music skill improvement.3 Deliberate practice is the application of intentional strategies during a practice session with the goal of improving musical elements, whether note and rhythm accuracy, increased tempo, phrasing, tone quality, or other. (Similar terms in the literature implying application of such strategies are structured or organized practice.) Studies have shown a correlation between the application of deliberate practice strategies and improvement.4 None of this is likely a surprise to anyone reading this article. Yet each musician appears to reinvent the wheel, discovering often only after years of distinctly undeliberate practice that there are quicker and more effective ways to learn music. Not that individual exploration is a bad thing; curiosity, inventiveness, and an attitude of "let's try this out" are all commendable. Unfortunately, however, many instrumentalists and singers arrive at the collegiate level without having developed practice strategies at all, whether learned from a teacher or self-developed. Many years ago, when hearing me practice the piano, my father would say that I was "practicing my mistakes." I, too, when my children were younger, heard them practicing mistakes-stumbling through a difficult passage, then going back and stumbling through it again. They had no strategies for correcting their mistakes or (novel idea!) avoiding mistakes from the start. They would begin most practice sessions at the beginning of the piece and play through to the end, repeating a number of times until the end of the practice session. Eventually, one can learn music in this fashion, but it's an inefficient use of time, can lead to embedded errors, and impedes effective assimilation of the music in a technically solid fashion.5 Moreover, not understanding how to practice results in a lack of attention to the musical aspects, including phrasing, dynamics, and articulation. Three decades of teaching voice has made it clear to me that many students-regardless of age, education, or innate vocal or musical aptitude-need assistance in learning how to practice music efficiently and effectively. For years, I've provided my students with a variety of practice techniques, which I have organized here into a structured, yet flexible approach. The combination of structure and flexibility is the key to effective practice. Structure helps the singer focus on crucial fundamental elements, while flexibility provides choices, thereby eliminating rote practice. Most of us have had the experience during a practice session of "going through the motions" without paying due attention to how we've been practicing. …


The research of image quality estimation standard and the image quality change according to the network traffic load increase at IPTV multicasting service is necessary because the concern of IPTV(Internet Protocol TV) service become active recently. General quality indicators for imaging services should represent users' quality of experience. To do this, it should be represented the quality from the point of view of users. It should be developed the QoE measurements to represent the quality of users. Accordingly, we study an algorithm for how to be investigated QoE.


A comparative evaluation was carried out between two different accelerated thermal aging tests for estimating thermo-oxidative stability (Tos) in advanced composite materials as part of an effort to determine if either could be used as a fast but reliable predictive method for assessing new materials. One test (kinetic mapping) was based on data obtained from highly accelerated thermogravimetric analysis (TGAo) techniques commonly used in matrix polymer synthetic work, the other was based on weight loss during medium-term aging at temperatures closer to the use temperature, and well below Ta. No correlation was found between the two sets of results when the measurements were carried out on a number of commercial as well as some new experimental resin and composite samples. Reasons for the discrepancies are advanced.


The study has been conducted with the help of a survey at Punjabi University Patiala to know the use of library resources and services by the research scholars and Postgraduate students. The study describes the users' preferences about available print and electronic resources. Moreover, the study also highlights the use of different library services. To complete this study 250 structured questionnaires were distributed to the research scholars and postgraduate students of Punjabi University Patiala. The percentage method was used to analyze the collected data. The study indicates that most of the respondents (58%) visit the library daily, whereas (25%) respondents come to the library occasionally. It is suggested by a large number of users that library should organize information literacy programmes for the improvement of library resources and services.


The utility model relates to an obstacle-crossing mechanism of a 500 kV transmission line quadripartion lead traveling device. A main wheel is fixed in a main wheel groove between the lower portions of two column plates through a main wheel shaft, and a bevel gear group is installed at one end of the outer side of the main wheel shaft. A main motor is fixed on a column plate close to the outer side, the upper ends a front swing arm and a rear swing arm are hinged to the column plates, auxiliary wheels are fixed in auxiliary wheel grooves of the swing arms through auxiliary wheel shafts, and auxiliary motors are fixed on the outer side of the lower ends of the swing arms. A lifting motor and a lead screw are installed in a sliding block, the lifting motor is connected with the lead screw through a lifting gear group, and two ends of the lead screw are respectively connected with the front swing arm and the rear swing arm through screw sleeves and screw sleeve fixing boards which are installed in the middle of the swing arms. The obstacle-crossing mechanism of the 500 kV transmission line quadripartion lead traveling device is high in strength and light in weight. The lead screw swing arm obstacle-crossing traveling mechanism can smoothly cross spacing rods, shockproof hammers, splicing sleeves, linear suspension strings and other obstacles, helps operators perform net rack continuous span routing and faults elimination, and improves work efficiency and reduces labor intensity.


The paper analyses the shortage of traditional real-time scheduler,on the basis that a kind of new intelligent scheduler model is proposed,the model integrates many kinds of scheduling algorithm,namely,the RT-Linux kernel functions,including real-time algorithm initialization and scheduling which are amended,and provides the unification interfaces for users.Finally,the paper carries on the complexity analysis and the performance test to the new scheduling mechanism.Experiments shows that the new scheduling mechanism may well satisfy the real-time requirements of the system.


Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt, commissioned by Dr. Mengele, created several portraits on which she depicted Roma. In 1963, they were bought by the Museum in Auschwitz, and six years later, the employees managed to find their author. Already during the first visit to the camp Dina Gottliebova wanted to recover her watercolors. Then, over the following years, she fought for their recovery, which is now continued by her family. Another example of making a claim to the Museum in Auschwitz is the issue of returning a suitcase to a family that belonged to Pierre Levy. The matter was settled by a settlement. The article will be considered on whether the exhibits should be returned.


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the organizing practices of a Lakota Sun Dance, and to contribute to the literature on rituals and ceremonies in organizational culture. Design/methodology/approach – The researcher acted as participant-as-observer during this extended ceremony. Fieldnotes capturing observations and informal interviews with Lakota elders were the source of data as recording devices were not permitted on the Sun Dance grounds. Observations were conducted for approximately 45 hours over the course of five days. Findings – The Lakota Sun Dance can be understood through organizational theory, particularly through a unique integration of the concepts of agency, loosely coupled systems, and just-in-time organizing. The current research highlights the role of agency in organizational ceremonies. Originality/value – This research offers a thick description of the organizing practices of an extended Lakota ceremony. The integration of traditional Lakota organizing principles wi...


Neighborhood revitalization has recently spread beyond the confines of select downtown affluent enclaves, and attempts to explain it and predict its future consequences have seen the emergence of certain explanatory models. (1) They, in attempting to explain revitalization, have incorporated conflicting assumptions and continue to evolve largely independent of one another. The purpose of this paper is to examine the utility of the ecological and managerialist models as research frameworks for explaining urban neighborhood revitalization in North America. While ecological explanations have emphasized the causal role of neighborhood housing and population variables, managerialist analyses have focused on the effects of resource allocators such as banks, realtors, and the like. Implicit in these two frameworks are divergent ascriptions of causality. Ecological explanations emphasize the sphere of household consumption; managerialism, in contrast, has made the production and allocation of resources its causal variable. They are thus different theoretical frameworks positing different explanatory notions. The urban ecological school, an outgrowth of Chicago human ecology, attributes patterns of reinvestment directly to the intrinsic character of neighborhoods and the urban milieu themselves. (2) City housing and population (ecological) characteristics are posited as either causal variables stimulating reinvestment or as significant intervening influences structured by processes external to urban areas. The most frequently cited causal processes include the unique architectural character of neighborhoods, amenity (reinvestment) spillover, and the influx of affluent households. More recently, ecological theorists have proposed the more sophisticated notions of the cyclical devaluation of fixed capital assets and the differential capacities of populations to blunt displacement as causal phenomena. (3) While the cyclical devaluation thesis emphasizes the depreciation of property (i.e., downgrading) as facilitating reinvestment, the other thesis has focused on politically vul-


Industry lobbyists blocked provisions that would have hampered commercial hedging, and cap-and-trade may be DOA. But recent decisions by the EPA and the Interior Department could still make 2010 a rough year for E&P.


We present the statistical evaluation of a count rate and area limited complete sample of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) comprising 674 sources. The RASS sources are located in six study areas outside the galactic plane (|b^II| >= 20 deg) and north of delta = -9 deg. The total sample contains 274 (40.7%) stars, 26 (3.9%) galaxies, 284 (42.1%) AGN, 78 (11.6%) clusters of galaxies and 12 (1.8%) unidentified sources. These percentages vary considerably between the individual study areas due to different mean hydrogen column densities N_H . For the accuracy of the RASS positions, i.e., the distance between optical source and X-ray position, a 90% error circle of about 30 arcsec has been found. Hardness and X-ray-to-optical flux ratios show in part systematic differences between the different object classes. However, since the corresponding parameter spaces overlap significantly for the different classes, an unambiguous identification on the basis of the X-ray data alone is not possible. The majority of the AGN in our sample are found at rather low redshifts with the median value of the whole sample being z_med=0.24. The median values for the individual fields vary between z_med=0.15 and z_med}=0.36. The slope of the log N-log S distributions for our AGN (-1.44 +- 0.09) is in good agreement with the euclidian slope of -1.5. The BL Lacs (with a slope of -0.72+-0.13) exhibit a much flatter distribution.


The American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) released new Hypertension guidelines in November 2017 that that are different from the 2014 JNC guidelines. Hypertension is now defined as any systolic blood pressure (BP) measurement of 130 mm Hg or higher or any diastolic BP measurement of 80 mm Hg or higher. We filmed clinical scenes for the capstone Team‐Based Learning (TBL) session for second‐year medical students to help them understand, apply, and compare the new hypertension guidelines. This method was inspired by an exercise known as Patient‐Oriented Problem Solving (POPS) in Pharmacology.


AbstractThis study aims to identify the accounting system that has applied by the Kerupuk Industry in Telagasari III environment, as well as establishing an appropriate accounting system for the Kerupuk Industry in Telagasari III Balikpapan City. The data used in this study is the primary data obtained directly from the Industry of Kerupuk by using interview method. The population in this research is Two-Heart Cracker Industry located at Telagasari III RT Street.39 No. 37 Balikpapan City, while the sample in this study is the accounting information system itself.Accounting information system is more lead to the process of transaction cycle analysis of recording transactions as well as the implementation of a simple accounting system and easily understood and implemented by the Kerupuk Industry to make improvements in the implementation of recording transactions,The absence of transaction records and the absence of good and orderly transactions due to the Two-Hearted Cracker Industry does not understand the form of financial transaction records. Given the amount of benefits that can obtained from the application of accounting, it is advisable to the Two-Heart Crackers Industry in order to immediately apply and continue the use of accounting information systems that have been made for the next period. No matter how small the transaction takes place, it is as simple as any accounting method used, but the accounting results will provide great benefits for the survival of the Two-Hearted Cracker Industry.Keywords: Analysis, Implementation, Accounting Information System, Kerupuk Industry


In the Internet, an identity service must to obtain permission from a user to allow them to share data with requesting service. For that, the privacy policy, which reflects legal regulations and preferences made by the user, is needed. Also, the management interface that aids the user to make the privacy policy and the PDP system that makes admission control and policy decisions in response to a request from an entity wanting to access the personal information are needed. In this paper, the privacy controller system model handled under the internet Identity management system environment is proposed. The system has the easy interface of policy generation and the efficient policy decision process. The system applies and modifies to the XACML of OASIS group. We propose that the privacy policy is divided into the three policies, which are the user policy, the domain policy and the basic offering policy. To resolve the collision between the policies, we also propose the collision resolution policy.


Tom Eadie's piece raises important questions that those of us in the Office of Library User Education at Ohio State University have been concerned about for quite some time. We agree with him that user education departments have to assess their existing programs and determine if they meet students' information needs. But our conclusions differ. While Eadie concluded that the reference department is the most effective instruction vehicle, especially given the changing information landscape, we have concluded that it is user education that can best help students learn how to use the changing library.


Microbubbles enhance ultrasonic signals, because they resonate in the ultrasound beam to boost the intensity by approximately 20 dB. This can be used to rescue failed B-mode and Doppler studies. However, it can also extend both methods into previously impossible applications, including evaluating the microvasculature of the myocardium and of tumors. Because the transit of an injected bolus can be tracked, transit time curves can be generated; these transit time curves may provide features that can discriminate between benign and malignant vasculature. New types of microbubble agents targeted to specific tissue types are under development; they may prove useful as therapeutic and diagnostic agents.


Introduction: The planet Mercury has been described as hellish due to its maximum daytime surface temperatures, which exceed 400°C near 0°E and 180°E longitude. Chemical measurements of Mercury's shallow regolith made from orbit by the MESSENGER spacecraft indicate that Mercury is more hellish than anticipated, with brimstone in addition to fire: X-ray spectroscopy (XRS) [1-2] and gamma-ray [3] spectroscopy (GRS) independently indicate that Mercury's shallow regolith (GRS samples the top 10s of cm of regolith [3-4]) contains abundant sulfur (~2 wt. % S on average [1-3]; up to 4 wt. % S [1-2]). (We take this shallow regolith composition to represent the composition of mercurian magmas, following [5-6].) In what phase(s) is this sulfur present? Not in elemental sulfur, which is unstable on most of Mercury's surface (where maximum daytime temperatures of >500 K exceed the melting point of elemental sulfur (~400 K) and imply exceedingly high sulfur evaporation rates [7]); probably not in sulfates, due to Mercury's reduced, oxygen-poor chemistry [5-6]; probably not in quenched silicate melts (although silicate melts can contain up to 10 wt. % sulfur in very reducing conditions (below IW-3) [1,5-6,8], exsolution of sulfide phases from sulfur-rich silicate melt occurs upon even rapid (~10 sec) quenching [8]; for comparison, a 1-meter thick lava flow takes ~10 sec to cool by conduction). By process of elimination, the most probable sulfur-bearing phases on Mercury are sulfides. What sulfides exist on Mercury? Likely FeS, as Fe is readily sulfidated in the presence of free S (in reduced conditions where O is wanting). But the shallow regolith is too Fe-poor for all sulfur to be present as FeS: the average Fe/S ratio of shallow regolith is ~0.8 by weight [3], whereas the Fe/S ratio of FeS is ~1.8 by weight. Thus, FeS accounts for only about half of the sulfur observed. Other sulfides must be invoked. Common sulfide-forming elements (e.g., Cu, Zn, Ni, etc.) have not been detected in any abundance [1]. Sulfides of the lithophile elements (e.g., CaS, MgS, MnS, NaCrS2, etc.) are common in enstatite chondrites [9], enstatite achondrites, and melts of enstatite chondrites [8], which are thought to be good chemical analogs for Mercury [1,5-6]; thus, lithophile sulfides could also be present on Mercury and account for the rest of the observed sulfur. In this abstract, we (1) present thermochemical and experimental evidence that CaS is the major lithophile sulfide on Mercury and (2) consider some implications of abundant CaS on Mercury. Thermochemical evidence for abundant CaS: The most abundant lithophile sulfide-forming elements on Mercury are Ca and Mg (Na is also abundant [3], but the major Na-bearing sulfide in enstatite chondrites is NaCrS2 [9]; low inferred Cr abundances [1] contraindicate abundant Na-bearing sulfides). Thus, the major lithophile sulfide is either CaS or MgS (or both). What are the relative abundances of CaS and MgS likely to be on Mercury? A simple thermochemical argument indicates that CaS ought to be substantially more abundant than MgS. Consider the following sulfidation reactions at 1500 K and 1 bar (tabulated in [5]):


To be successful in higher education students need to self-regulate their learning processes. As students often possess the required strategies but do not use them, prompts are considered to be helpful to motivate students applying strategies. This quasi-experimental study examines the impact of prompting self-regulated learning strategies on a transfer test including learning behavior indicated by trace data. Findings indicate that mainly study-related characteristics are predicting learning outcome, and that trace data are only limitedly capable of informing learning outcome in small data sets. Future research should further investigate the capacities of learning analytics for predicting learning outcome and supporting learning processes using experimental settings with larger cohorts. In addition, the role of the tutor as mediator between learning analytics results and provided interventions need to be investigated.


From the four dimensions " supervise to urge teaching, learning,management and change",based on Bozhou Secondary Vocational and Technical School, the paper made concise and representative analysis on the teaching quality of Xinjiang secondary vocational and the technology schools; and proposed school teaching quality is the life line for survival and development. Strengthening the teaching quality management, establish and improve teaching quality monitoring system are the important measures and means to promote effective teaching supervision work and strengthen the teaching management, standardize classroom teaching process,improve the quality of teaching.


Historically, military training exercises haven't integrated weather very well. Generally, exercises use weather to control pace. If Blue Forces seem to be winning too quickly, exercise controllers "crank up" the bad weather. Occasionally, controllers use weather to cause an effect such as placing a thunderstorm over a base to preclude takeoffs. In both cases, exercise weather may not be realistic or consistent. In other words, real weather generally doesn't change suddenly without some indication giving planners/trainees something to consider while planning. Granted, in real life, weather may not resolve exactly as forecasters predict, but at least planners/trainees understand the possibilities and can formulate ways to mitigate or exploit weather effects. The Department of Defense (DoD) Air and Space Natural Environment (ASNE) Modeling and Simulation Executive Agent (MSEA) recently integrated new processes and technology to increase weather realism in AUSTERE CHALLENGE 06 (AC06), an operational level evaluation that incorporated live, virtual, and constructive elements into the federation. In AC06, exercise objectives drove the weather scenario, which complemented training instead of dictating specific responses. This paradigm can be integrated into other DoD exercises to augment training while enhancing realism. This paper describes the process and technologies used in AC06 as well as future enhancements to make weather more realistic in exercises.


Because of the differences in solubility of the simple complexes MeY formed between the lanthanides and HEDTA and because of the differences in the formation constants of the double complexes MeY2Hn(3–n)–, it is possible to separate the rare earths of the ceric group in macroscopic quantities.

From the view point of purity, the best results are obtained for lanthanum (99,5) and neodymium (98,87). Samarium and gadolinium are not separated but are obtained in highly concentrated form. Praseodymium is obtained in impure form containing a considerable amount of neodymium.


Though the paper focuses on pricing, as the background I provide some evidence about loan flows across markets in the form of borrowers' and lenders' propensity to issue outside their natural home market. The data show that borrowers stay home when they can and that they tend to issue in Europe when they must issue abroad. That is, borrowers domiciled in one of the major markets (Europe, U.S., and Asia) almost always issue in that market, whereas borrowers in more remote locations usually issue in the European market. For example, borrowers from Latin America are overwhelmingly issuing in Europe rather than in the U.S. market.


This article describes the social and functional characteristics of a group of learning disabled young people with additional severe disabilities, identified through a school-based survey of 12-to 16-year-olds. The study was carried out as part of a larger piece of work to develop the knowledge base for the first learning disabilities joint investment plan in one coterminous health and local authority inner-city area. Compared with the results of a survey conducted in 1977, any change in the prevalence of severe disability, or of the most severely physically disabled, has been relatively small. However, the prevalence of severe disability was found to be markedly higher among young people of South Asian background, compared with the rest of the population. Some of the implications for service planning and provision are discussed.


BACKGROUND: Shoulder injuries are among the most common musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) that can present in teachers, due to the nature of the teaching profession.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of shoulder MSD in primary school teachers, Durban, South Africa.

METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 203 school teachers. A questionnaire to determine the prevalence of shoulder injuries and other common injuries experienced was completed. Descriptive statistics and chi-square and binomial tests were used to analyse the results.

RESULTS: The prevalence of shoulder injuries among school teachers was 53.7%, which was significantly higher than neck injuries (p=.037). Participants who had had a previous injury to the shoulder were more likely to have experienced shoulder problems at work (p = .006). A significant 76.1% had not injured their shoulder in any way (p <.0005). Additionally, the shoulder problems prevented a significant 77% of the participants from performing their normal work for up to seven days during the previous 12 months (p<.0005).

CONCLUSION: Preventative and management strategies for shoulder injuries among school teachers are needed.


The paper presents new results of experimental study of stability of the direct current electric arc in vacuum interrupter with an axially-symmetric magnetic field under contact opening. The study allowed to obtain more detailed data, on the dynamics of plasma glow and spots on electrodes during transition from stable to unstable stage of vacuum arc evolution. Features of stable and unstable stages of vacuum arc burning at direct current 50 - 150 A and at change of magnetic field from 100 up to 150 mT are investigated.


Unionida is the most diverse clade of freshwater bivalves. Among the groups occurring in South America, one with the highest number of species is Rhipidodontini (Hyriidae, Unionida, Paleoheterodonta, Bivalvia). However several issues remains on taxonomy and systematic of this group, leading to problems on species identification, description, as also as a limiting factor to other type of studies (e.g., ecology, conservation,...). In this paper is presented a synthesis of available knowledge about Diplodon Spix in Wagner, 1827 and Rhipidodonta Mörch, 1853 in South America, as a first step in order to a better understating of Rhipidodontini. The evaluation of different authors exposes the little agreement between them that resulted in a sort of divergent taxonomical opinions. Some comments on ecology, conservation and habitat preferences were made. This work can also encourage future research on taxonomy, systematic, ecology and conservation of freshwater mussels in South America.


In this paper, we propose a new concept for intelligence called artifact intelligence that can be another approach to realize intelligent robots. Artifact intelligence means intelligence for artifacts that fits its embodiment, i.e., structures and functions of artifacts. Artifact intelligence differs from natural intelligence in terms of intentionality and automated objects in autonomy. In order to realize artifact intelligence, we investigate two types of affordance with the prototype robots, i.e., active affordance with the autonomous mobile chair and emergent affordance with "AgentBox".


Objective: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the association between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Korean women. Methods: Participants (n=2068) aged 50 years or older were selected from Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) 2005-2008. Sociodemographic characteristics, medical history of RA, and EuroQol-5 dimension were obtained from the KNHANES dataset. Results: The results revealed that demographic variables, including age, education level, income, exercise, smoking, and alcohol drinking, were important factors associated with HRQoL. In this study, RA was an important factor affecting HRQoL in Korean women. The adjusted odds ratio for HRQoL in participants with RA was 2.15 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.46-3.18, p=0.001) in mobility, 2.30 (95% CI: 1.60-3.32, p<0.001) in usual activities, and 3.41 (95% CI: 2.20-5.28, p<0.001) in pain/discomfort. Conclusion: These findings suggest that there is a strong associationbetween RA and HRQoL and preventing and controlling RA may significantly improve the quality of life for elderly Korean women.


Objective: With reference to relevant literature and brief analysis of televised content, this article discusses the potential value of RuPaul's Drag Race (RPDR) in psycho-education about mentalization. Conclusions: RPDR can be viewed as an example of the 'entertainment-education' genre containing instructive displays of mentalization in action and an opportunity to increase public awareness of concepts that support emotional resilience. The psycho-educative potential of RPDR merits further evaluation.


Acknowledgement: most data analyses reported in this paper would not have been possible without Viktor Szigetvári, Csaba Tordai and Balázs Vető (2011) disaggregating the precinctlevel results of the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Hungarian elections according to the 2011 constituency boundaries and widely sharing their results with the public. I am also grateful for numerous conversations about the topic to Juraj Medzihorsky and many others whose names could not be listed exhaustively. Obviously, none of the above are responsible for my errors.


This study addresses the land‐atmospheric coupling strength by using long‐term AmeriFlux data from a wide range of land covers and climate regimes to reconstitute the surface exchange coefficient, Ch, which governs the total surface heat fluxes. For spring and summer, results show stronger coupling for tall canopy with Ch values ten times larger than for shorter vegetation. Observed Ch are then compared to values from the Noah land model. Results indicate that Noah underestimated (overestimated) Ch for forest (grass and crops), implying an insufficient (too efficient) coupling for tall canopy (short canopy). This discrepancy is attributed to the treatment of the roughness length for heat. With modest adjustments, the Noah model can reproduce the observed Ch. This study highlights the crucial role of treating the surface exchange processes in coupled land/weather/climate models and the need to use long‐term flux data for different vegetation types and climate regimes to assess and mitigate their deficiencies.


When graphite electrode immersed in a fused mixture bath, an alloy layer is formed on the electrode surface. It has excellent electric conductivety and could be effectively used to reduce the oxidative consumption of graphite electrode in the process of are furnace steelmak-ing. The basic technical process and the formation mechanism of the alloy layer were dis-cribed. Then,effects of the treating condition and composition of the fused mixture system on the growth process and composition of this layer were also investigated with experiments.


Invagination (intussusception) represents telescoping of the proximal segment of the intestine (intususceptum) into the distal segment of the intestine (intususcepiens). We report the case of a patient with colon-colonic invagination caused by adenocarcinoma of the cecum as one of the rare causes of colonic invagination. Multidetector computerized tomography of the abdomen and lesser pelvis is a diagnostic method of choice and intestine resection according to the principle of oncological resection is a treatment of choice in adults with malignant etiology of the disease. Acta Medica Medianae 2019;58(3):93-96.


This report will give overall information on radio network design theory and method in TD-SCDMA mobile communication system and also intend to provide reference for relative developer and those who are interested.


This study aimed to evaluate the quality of water; some minerals and phytic acid content in some legume seeds. All samples obtained from Elseleim Agricultural Scheme, north Sudan state. Sixteen water samples from wells, tanks, hand pumps and the river Nile were collected in sterilized plastic bottles and subjected to laboratory analysis to estimate their physical and chemical properties, these sources used for drinking for human and animal as well as irrigation in the field site. On the other hand, minerals and phytic acid were estimated in the seeds of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), chickpea (Cicer arietinum), pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), faba bean (Vicia faba), white bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), lablab bean (Lablab purpureus), field pea (Pisum sativum) and chickling (Lathyrus sativus) that irrigated from the same water sources. The results showed that pH, odor, taste, electric conductivity, ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, sulfate, alkalinity, cations, anions and heavy metals in water samples were within the safe limit according to World Health Organization, 1993 and Sudanese Standards and Metrology Organization, 2002. However, significantly (P<0.05) high levels of arsenic (0.1mg/l); Fe (0.3 mg/l) and total dissolved solids (156 mg/l) were detected in the River Nile water sample. All the estimated values of the total hardness of the water samples collected from hand pumps, tanks and wells were higher than the recommended limit (200 mg/l). Please purchase PDFcamp Printer on http://www.verypdf.com/ to remove this watermark.


Background: During chemotherapy for breast cancer, African American women receive less relative dose intensity with more dose reductions and early chemotherapy cessation compared to Caucasian women. Other research has found that older breast cancer patients are most at risk for treatment modifications; however, it is unclear if this remains true for African American patients. Furthermore, the clinical implications of treatment modifications and delays on survival is uncertain, particularly in African American patients. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether age (diagnosis Methods: A retrospective cohort study of early stage African American breast cancer patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy was employed. Dose held, dose delayed and early cessation were examined as dichotomous variables: any adjustment to the initially prescribed treatment plan was considered a modification. Medical record data extraction was utilized to gather this information. The sample was divided into two groups: those diagnosed Results: In the study of 115 participants, 58 (50.4%) were diagnosed before the age of 55, and 57 (49.6%) were diagnosed age 55 or older. Across the entire sample, 43 (37.4%) patients experienced a treatment modification. There were no significant differences in the proportions of treatment modifications between the two age groups. We found no interaction between age group and treatment modifications for OS. However, there was a significant interaction between age group and held dose for DFS (p=0.045). Specifically, those diagnosed at 55 years of age and older, who had doses of chemotherapy held, experienced worse DFS compared to those who did not (hazard ratio (HR)=3.390, 95% CI (1.013,11.34)). In contrast, there was no difference in DFS between those who did and did not have doses held in patients diagnosed below 55 years of age (HR=0.563, 95%CI (0.159, 1.986)). Conclusions: African American women receiving adjuvant chemotherapy for treatment of early stage breast cancer have high levels of treatment modifications across all age groups. However, held doses of chemotherapy in older African American patients were associated with worse DFS. Further research is needed to elucidate the clinical implications of adjuvant chemotherapy treatment modifications, particularly in African American patients, and the subgroups of patients who are at greatest risk. Citation Format: Nugent BD, Ren D, Bender C, Rosenzweig M. The impact of age and adjuvant chemotherapy modifications on disease-free and overall survival among African American women with breast cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2018 Dec 4-8; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P1-17-10.


Grid computing provides services to the users to discover, transfer, and manipulate large datasets distributed in different locations. Classifying large datasets without using a centralized approach is a key problem in this kind of architectures and, for instance, it is essential for the ever growing datasets bioinformatic scientists face. To this aim, Grid-FCNN, a grid-enabled architecture for classifying huge data set using the nearest neighbor rule is presented in this paper. In order to cope with the communication overhead typical of distributed environments and to reduce memory requirements, two different strategies are presented, namely Grid-FCNN1 and Grid-FCNN2, and their performances in grid environments is analyzed. An analysis of the experimental results, performed on both synthetic and real very large datasets, revealed that these techniques are adapt to be used in a Grid. Furthermore, it is illustrated how the Grid-based algorithm can be applicable in a real bioinformatics scenario.


The objectives of this study are to diagnose the reality of the existing university Korean liberal education and to suggest a new class modet of...


The authors introduce FF, a linear-programming design language, and use a detailed design example in FF to present techniques for the design of transmit-and-receive finite-impulse-response (FIR) filters. In the example transmit filter, after the usual analog reconstruction filter is modified to place its steep rolloff where it will ease the requirements on the FIR filter, the latter can then be designed so that the combined spectral response of the analog and FIR filters will be root Nyquist, meet a regulatory mask, and minimize interference with adjacent channels. The choice of a transmit-filter phase response is based on the resulting peak transmit-power requirement. An analog/FIR combination receive filter is similarly designed to satisfy requirements on intersymbol-interference, degree of match to the transmitter, and adjacent-channel interference.<<ETX>>


This paper introduces a method to represent Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Control Systems (FCSs) as computational graphs, so they can be adjusted through a supervised training process based on gradient descent. It has been tested both with artificial (i.e. a known fuzzy controller) and naturalistic (i.e. driver's data extracted from the vehicle and the environment) data. The results achieved show high conformance to synthetic data, and seem to describe a car-following behavior with quite good precision, which suggests that it is possible to model the driver's behavior in a longitudinal model based on if-then type rules.


Introduction: Tamizdat as Cold War Interaction Chapter 1: Tamizdat in its Infancy 1.1. From the terror to Doctor Zhivago 1.2. Authors on trial 1.3. Public outcries and appeals 1.4. Solzhenitsyn's manuscripts Chapter 2: Tamizdat as community 2.1. Stepping into the underground 2.2. The ambiguity of samizdat 2.3. The tamizdat dilemma 2.4. Emigres bridging east and west 2.5. New york intellectuals and their other europe Chapter 3: Tamizdat as Border Crosser 3.1. Free Europe, the radios and tamizdat 3.2. Smuggling across the curtain 3.3. Diplomats and embassies Chapter 4: Tamizdat as Human Right and Discourse 4.1. The writer's right 4.2. Literary Helsinki 4.3. Envisioning Europe Conclusion: Tamizdat Beyond the Literary Cold War References Primary Sources Secondary Sources


The previous experiments of Takasaki (1956), Takasaki et al. (1957, 1959b) have been shown that the mechanism of the reflex apnea caused by nicotine or diphenhydramine may be due to "pulmonary respiratory chemoreflex" as described by Dawes G. S. et al. (1954). Additionaly, the reflex systemic hypotension of veratrum alkaloids (Dawes, 1947, Aviado et al., 1951, Rose et al., 1957) is produced by a reflex from the lungs; it was called "pulmonary depressor chemoreflex" (Dawes et al., 1954). This was confirmed with nicotine by Takasaki (1962) . The localization of receptors responsible for this reflex may be in the lung andthis afferent path ascends in the vagi. On the other hand, it has been shown that the reflex circulatory depressor responses and the impulses from heart receptors were intercepted by intrapericardial administration of procaine or local anesthetics (Kurotubo, 1942, Hukuda, 1951, Kido, 1953). In the former experiment (Takasaki et al., 1959b), it was confirmed that the receptor in the heart is not responsible to the respiratory reflex caused by nicotine . It was also reported that the reflex apnea caused by nicotine was blocked by intravenous injection of tetraethylammonium bromide and hexamethonium bromide but not by atropine (Nakano et al., 1957, Takasaki et al., 1959a). In this report, it was done attempting that the separation of the receptors in the heart and lungs using several blocking agents administered intrapericardially and the absorption of the drugs into the systemic circulation was investigated.


This article reviews and reorganizes the developmental history of enterprise social work in China thoroughly for the first time,and meanwhile summarizes four typical operating modes in practice including in-house programs,contractor auspice programs,business buying programs and project embedded programs.Moreover,this paper brings forward the concept of "Integrated development of enterprise social work in community",a new mode better suited to the present condition of China on the basis of the critical understanding of the four operating modes mentioned before and the difficulties encountered in the practice of enterprise social work.


Chloride is generally believed to be conservative with respect to water and is often used as atracer of water movement in hydrological research and biogeochemical modeling. However,the last decade ...


The Church Order of Dordtrecht of 1619 and of the Dutch Reformed Church of 1962: The latter a developement of the former on church discipline? A spokesman for the Commission of Actuarii who drafted the Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church for a newly founded general synod in 1962, J.D. Vorster, called it an example of the Church Order of Dordt of 1619 for present times. That meant that this Church Order used the same principles or constants as Dordt, but under different circumstances. The influence of the Church Order of Dordt on the Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church of 1962 on church discipline is investigated. The latter indeed used constants of the former, but also revealed new developments: developments of a reformational nature and not only with regard to new circumstances, but also in the formulation and usage of some constants. What the Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church also took over from the Church Order of Dordt, was a list of sins which made it difficult for ministers to be reinstalled after they have sinned.


In some distributed systems, resources are leased, usually for a fixed period of time. For instance, a client leases a network printer for ten minutes. We consider the first step of leasing-acquisition, and extend the concept of the acquisition of a single resource to that of a collection of resources. In such a context, clients must have simultaneous access to all of the requested resources for the lease to be useful. The paper describes designs and implementations for collective acquisition of resources in distributed systems. It begins with the application background of our research, followed by the formalization of the problem. We then introduce our algorithm and prove its correctness. Two implementations are specified and compared. Evaluation of the performance of the algorithms is based on the measurements of the network overhead caused by the exchange of control messages, and the measurements of the average response time for the requests. Implemented in Java, our system makes novel use of multicast to enhance performance and uses heart-beat heuristics to achieve fault resilience. Finally, we propose approaches to optimize the system performance exploiting soft global state information.


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            The objectives of the research were (1) to examine causal relationship of conceptual measurement model and empirical data (2) to study direct effects and indirect effects in leadership, organizational culture, leaning organization level to effectiveness of Rajabhat University; Rattakosin Group. In this quantitative research, the researchers used questionnaire as an instrument. The defined research sample 15 units per a variable was  consisted of 240 informants; University lecturers and support staff by randomly stratified and analyzed structural equation modeling for relationship. The research results indicated that the casual model in Organizational Culture, Learning Organization and Effectiveness of Rajabhat University; Rattakosin Group was conformed to empirical data at goodness of fit index Chi-square=60.97, df=46, p=0.069, chi-square/df=1.325, GFI=0.97, AGFI=0.96, SRMR=0.040 and RMSEA=0.037 and it was found that learning organization, organizational culture and leadership affected positively to effectiveness of Rajabhat University; Rattanakosin Group.


In order to widen the application and enhance the fire extinguishing efficiency of ordinary gel,a temperature-sensitive hydrogel P(NIPA-co-SA)was synthesized by phase separation.The product structure,temperature-sensitivity performance and relevant physical parameters were characterized through Fourier transform infrared spectrometer,surface tensiometer and viscometer.According to national standard GB17835-2008,the solid combustible fire experiment rig was established,and the fire extinguishing performance of water,ordinary gel and temperature-sensitive hydrogel were comparatively studied.The results show that:synthesized product is target product P(NIPA-co-SA).Because of volume phase transition(VPT)hydrogel became gelled when temperature is above lower critical solution temperature(LCST),and the surface tension was low and viscosity was high.0.3% is the recommended concentration for temperature-sensitive firefighting foam preparation,which can effectively quench solid combustible fire.Its fire extinguishing performance is better than that of water and ordinary fire extinguishing agent.


Connector characterized in that the contact carrier (31) is placed at a distance from the housing (14) axially by a separating slot (34) radially and is decoupled by a damping member (46) of the housing (14) absorbing energy.


In 2001,the State Council iss ued "the decision on reform and development of basic education ". Some rural compulsory education schools' layout have been adjusted,known as "school layout adjustment". This policy,under the conditions at that time,better integrating the educational resources,improving the utilization rate of funds,to some extent,met the desire of farmers' children to get a better education. But some local governments centralized school sponsors excessively,which brings some certain negative effects. This policy was stopped by the State Council in November 2012 after an implementation of about 10 years. This paper aims to analyze the 10 years' policy changes of the layout adjustment,find the reasons behind the change of policy,and provide reasonable suggestions to perfect this policy.


Cell-free protein expression (CFPE) is emerging as a powerful platform for rapid, parallel and economical synthesis of a number of proteins without living cells. The open nature and high versatility of the CFPE system makes it particularly well-suited for producing proteins that are difficult to produce in living cells and for patient-specific therapeutic vaccines or antidotes in response to threats from natural and man-made biological agents. In the post-genomic era, cellfree protein synthesis has the potential to become one of the most important high throughput technologies for functional genomics and proteomics.


Four gibbons were presented with five types of string-pulling problems based on those used by KOHLER to demonstrate insight. Contrary to the results of previous research on problem-solving ability in gibbons, all of the problems were solved quickly and efficiently. Their success is attributed to the fact that, in the present research, the strings were elevated so as not to be lying on a flat surface. Such a design is more suitable to the anatomy and sensory capacities of these animals and more in accord with the types of manipulable objects which are found in their natural environment. At least one of the problem types was solved insightfully. It is concluded that the sudden appearance of a complete, adaptive ("correct"), complex response sequence following a period of non-problem-directed responding which in turn follows a period of non-adaptive ("incorrect") attempts at problem solution objectively characterize the qualitatively unique learning process known as insight. It is suggested that objective identification of qualitatively unique learning processes is a prerequisite to the meaningful analysis of tool-using behavior.


The antimetabolite, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), produces in the skin redness, erosive lesions, and hyperpigmentation after intravenous use and from topical application. 1-4 There has been no note of nail changes except for brief mention of rare hyperpigmentation and transverse sulci after intravenous use. In the course of our studies of the past year with topical 5-FU for the treatment of warts (308 patients) and of skin malignancy (23 patients), 5 we have observed 14 cases of nail disturbances. All these occurred in the treatment of 39 patients with periungual warts. 5-Fluorouracil was used as 5% in Neobase, * 5% with 5% salicylic acid in Neobase, 20% in Neobase, and 20% with 5% salicylic acid in Neobase. All of these were used under adhesive. Controls in these experiments were 5% salicylic acid in Neobase and adhesive alone. Adhesive plaster with salicylic acid was not used as a control. Salicylic acid was used to


PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the corrosion of an insulator for supporting an electrode and a substrate having an elevated central part covering the electrode and a lower peripheral part extending over the electrode by forming a step part between the central part and the peripheral part. SOLUTION: An insulator 22 has a central part 25 covering an electrode 24 and supporting a substrate 42, and a peripheral part 26 spreading over the electrode 24. The central part 25 is elevated as compared with the peripheral part 26, thus forming a step part 27. The step part 27 has height of about 10 μm or less, preferably of about 5 μm. This structure suppresses corrosion at the exposed peripheral part of the insulator 22.


Breeding area and territorial behavior in a marked population of plateau pika(Och-otona curzoniae) were studied over a 3 -year breeding period,1985-1987 in Heimahe of Qinghai Lake.
Plateau pika is a characteristic steppe dwelling pika. They stay relatively close to their burrow system and live colonially in family groups. The home range is an area over which a family member commonly roams,but does not necessarily defend.Territory is an area less than their home range, frequently used and defended by the parents.
During the breeding season female-male,suggesting a system of pairing,establish a new family and a home range. Maintenance of territories is enhanced by affiliative behaviors, long calling, scent-marking, and aggressive behaviors (chasing,fighting), and aggression is greater among males than females.


Chapter Three emphasizes Joseph Smith's exposure to Methodist sermon culture, within the context of exploring the preaching styles and oral performances of evangelical preachers in the Burned-Over District of Western New York. A close analysis of Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian preaching techniques illustrates the ubiquitous method of laying down heads and the practice of semi-extemporaneous sermon delivery. The chapter also addresses the extemporaneous preacher's method of preparation through the study of scriptures and other religious writings, as a way of "treasuring up the word of God" and building a mental storehouse of ideas for impromptu delivery. The chapter also explores the specific influence of Methodist sermon culture on Smith, who joined a local Methodist class and trained as a Methodist exhorter. Within this tradition, the influence of George Whitefield, John Wesley, and Adam Clarke are reviewed.


. In this paper, we investigated the concept of expansivity for composition operators on Orlicz-Lorentz spaces. We study necessary and sufficient conditions for expansivity, positive expansivity and uniformly expansivity for composition operators C τ on L ϕ,h ( µ ). We extend the of results of [17] into Orlicz-Lorentz space.The proofs of the results are essentially based on the results of [17]


We demonstrate AutoClicker, a fully automated UI testing system for large-scale Android apps using multiple devices. It provides a way to quickly and easily verify that a large number of Android apps behave correctly at runtime in a repeatable manner.


After 1780, wrought iron (WI) provided a structural material and steel was cherished for its hardness and cutting qualities. When available in quantity after ~1860, steel's structural strength and wear resistance were recognized in normalized condition in armor plates, rails and drawn wire. The responsible microstructure component was pearlite in which the lamellar spacing of ferrite and carbides could be refined by simple bulk heat treatments that are practiced with small modification until today. The strength and toughness rose as the layer thickness decreased the ferrite slip length and the carbide cracking. In hot working, the strength rises as much as 200% (while ductility falls) with fraction of pearlite; below the transus compared to austenite just above it, strengths are equal at about 0.7C (ductilities equal at 0.35C).


Under certain conditions during takeoff and landing, pilots may sometimes experience vibrations in the cockpit. Because the cockpit is located right above the nose landing gear, which is known to potentially be prone to self-excited vibrations at certain velocities, an explanation for those vibrations might be oscillations of the landing gear feeding into the fuselage. However, the fuselage dynamics itself may also influence the dynamics of the landing gear, meaning that the coupling must be considered as bidirectional. A mathematical model is developed to study a coupled nose-landing-gear–fuselage system, which allows to assess the overall influence of the coupling on the system dynamics. Bifurcation analysis reveals that this interaction may be significant in both directions and that the system behavior depends strongly on the modal characteristics of the fuselage.


The advent of nanotechnology, and newly emerging magnetic structures and phenomenon has pushed the functionality of electronic devices to atomic level [1, 2]. Atomic level functionality further demands the tools and techniques, capable of measuring the magnetic properties at nano and atomic scale sensitivity. Several available methods, i.e, XMCD, SPSEM can sense the spatial magnetic properties, but are limited to spatial resolution of about ~20 nm [3, 4]. In this context recently developed technique EMCD has shown its capability of detecting magnetic properties at nano and atomic scale [5, 6]. Due to the strong columbic interaction at atomic scale, the electron probe can cause the atomic excitation of distant atomic columns. Therefore, in order to rationalize the spatial resolution, it is necessary to study the source and nature of intrinsic delocalization [7]. We probe the proximity of magnetic signal in EMCD by electron vortex beam (EVBs) and atomic sized astigmatic beams, respectively. For present investigation antiferromagnetic LaMnAsO is considered as test bed material. Inelastic scattering cross section of Mn-L3 edge is calculated with combined Multislice-Bloch wave approach and z-locality approximation as implemented in MATS v2 software. Convergence angle α = 30 mrad, and optimized value of four fold astigmatism C34 (17 μm) is used for all calculations. Figure 1 shows the structure of LaMnAsO and a scheme of the probes used for the present study. In order to obtain maximum magnetic response from the astigmatic probe, the central intensity of astigmatic probe is restricted. Figure 2 indicates that EMCD signal intensity localizes within small scattering angle range while it smears out for higher scattering angles for astigmatic probes. For higher signal to noise ratio, EMCD, NM signal detection, EVBs is a better probe as compare to astigmatic probes (Figure 3). Higher SNR can be obtained within in small collection angle (~ 6-8 mrad) range. SNR can be enhance by introducing the aperture on the centre of astigmatic probe. While probing with EVBs the maximum magnetic signal arises from probed atomic column. Irrespective of material thickness, EVBs remains strongly localized on probed atomic column. Magnetic contribution arises within few nm of thickness of material. While probing with astigmatic probe majority of the magnetic signal originates from the nearest neighbour atomic column (Figure 4). Higher SNR and excellent signal localization suggests that EVBs can be an excellent probe for measuring magnetic properties at interface, crystal site specific doped magnetic impurity etc.


Rock burst is one of the worst natural disasters in coal mining. Drilling cuttings method is an effective way of identifying rock burst danger degree by testing discharged pulverized coal quantity, its changing laws and related dynamic effect through drilling small diameter drill in coal seam. Based on drilling effect principle, relationship between drilling powder amount and stress, rock burst risk index was determined. Through drilling test in the coal face gateway along the tendency of coal seam and extracting the pulverized coal, coal weight of unit hole deep, pulverized coal volume and large particles pulverized coal weight were tested. Following this, critical pulverized coal quantity of coal seam mining rock burst danger was ensured and rock burst danger degree of the coal seam mining was evaluated.


We present a general equilibrium strategic market game model of an two-country, two-period economy with no uncertainty. In this model, the uncovered interest rate parity, the absolute and the relative purchasing power parity and the Fischer e¤ect may fail at equilibrium, because agents behave strategically and manipulate prices. This result is exclusively due to the …nite number of traders in the economy and not from any type of market friction. An international investor may generate free but bounded pro…t by arbitraging interest rates without equalizing returns across countries. PRELIMINARY AND INCOMPLETE DRAFT Tel.: +30-2310-997120, fax +30-2310-996426 E-mail: email@example.com (K.Papadopoulos).


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Aging results in anatomical changes to the face. The main change observed in the lower third of the face is ptosis of the labial commissure, which results in a triangular depressed area at the corner of the mouth, increased mentolabial sulcus, the formation of marionette lines, decreased the concavity between the jaw and neck, and noticeable platysma banding1. Cosmetic rejuvenation to correct marionette lines has evolved. Over the past five years, intradermal radiofrequency (RF) has become a common modality for reducing cutaneous sagging and wrinkling. A recent study2 demonstrates combination therapy with hyaluronic acid (HA) filler and intradermal RF results in greater and longer improvement of the nasolabial folds than HA monotherapy. Therefore, we tested intradermal RF and HA filler combination therapy with the aim of increasing volume and correcting marionette lines.

A 40-year-old woman unhappy with her marionette lines sought therapy (Fig. 1A). She had never received filler injection or laser resurfacing. The first step of therapy involved intradermal RF treatments using new device (INNOfill; Pacific Pharma, Korea) at 18 W (level 7, 1 MHz, 5 passes) with an insulation-coated 27-gauge needle electrode. The needle electrode was inserted along the marionette lines using a fanning technique. After delivering the RF energy, HA filler (Juvederm; Allergan, Irvine, CA, USA) was injected by linear threading. Slight bleeding occurred at the insertion site, but this was resolved within several hours. The treatment was successful, and she was very satisfied with the cosmetic outcome (Fig. 1B).

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(A) Before treatment. (B) Marked improvement 3 months after intradermal radiofrequency treatment prior to hyaluronic acid filler injection.

New bipolar RF device is used in combination with HA filler injection. This combination therapy is expected to produce a potentially long-lasting effect of the filler. This device delivers RF via an intradermal needle that specifically creates tunnel-like coagulation canals that will hold and support the injected HA filler. In addition, on the basis of the well-known effects on fibroblast proliferation caused by RF, RF energy induces new collagen formation3. Several cases and studies corroborate the notion that treatment with RF devices is a safe and efficient solution for the treatment of wrinkles2 and scars4. The real innovation potential lies in the possibility of using this device in combination with other well-known methods in the cosmetic medicine, which has clear potential for improving the efficiency of several techniques. This approach provides a filling/lifting/smoothing effect, thus reducing the effects of aging.

The major limitation of this case is that treatment was applied to the whole face; the results would be stronger if half the face was treated with RF alone or filler alone for comparison. In order to evaluate the efficacy of intradermal RF with HA filler combination therapy for correcting marionette lines, comparison with monotherapy with RF or HA filler is necessary.

To our knowledge, this is the first case in which HA filler was combined with RF treatment to correct marionette lines. Indeed, large randomized controlled studies are necessary to confirm the results. In addition, further studies in different clinical settings are required to confirm the validity of this device in the aesthetic dermatological field.


[This column has been delayed for one week, as I have pursued more detailed information relating to the events that preceded and occurred on January 27, 1975. I am reminded once again of the motto of the University of Virginia, "For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."] On Monday, the 27th of January, Dr. G. Donald Whedon, Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases (NIAMD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), authorized release of the findings of the Biometric Society—which had completed its review of the University Group Diabetes Program (UGDP) Study. This preceded publication of the Biometric Society article and an accompanying editorial by Dr. Thomas Chalmers, Dean and President of the Mt. Sinai Medical Center, in the Feb 10 issue ofThe


The food choices we make have an impact on our health. The quality and quantity of food we choose and the type of nutrients present in food all directly impact our health in a good, bad, or sustainable way. The food choices we make throughout the day for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner decides our health in long term. Consumers' daily food choices have great potential in transforming towards healthier and more sustainable food systems (1,11) food choices have been proposed to further depict how different factors essentially affect healthier and sustainable food choices. Body mass Index ranges from underweight, normal, overweight to obese, and studies results show that people with a higher BMI that is obese and overweight pay more for health care costs. Preservatives are a part of packaged foods to increase their shelf time although their safe intake in safe limit doesn't harm health immediately excess intake can affect health in the long term and certain chemicals present in food preservatives act as slow poison.


Since Taiwan adopted its National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme in 1995, it has achieved low-cost, high-efficiency performance, with a satisfaction rate as high as 80 percent on average. However, the imbalance between expenditure and revenue has resulted in a cycle of unsustainable spending which also caused the subsequent necessary reforms and political confrontations in Taiwan. This paper aims to focus on three overlapping themes of the experience of Taiwan's NHI financial sustainability: (1) the rationale and achievements of the programme so far, along with the growing pains it has encountered in financial sustainability; (2) the factors leading to the financial crisis and the major reform proposals since 1998; (3) the political obstructions, governance capability and government strategies to promote the NHI reform. Obviously, the issue of the financial sustainability of the healthcare operation is always unfinished business. It can be anticipated that the lesson from Taiwan's experience will provide an interesting comparison to other traditional and renowned welfare systems around the world.


International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research Available online at www.globalresearchonline.net © Copyright protected. Unauthorised republication, reproduction, distribution, dissemination and copying of this document in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Available online at www.globalresearchonline.net 122 Kalpana Devi Mohan, Usha Rajamanickam* Department of Microbiology, Karpagam University (Karpagam Academy of Higher Education), Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. *Corresponding author's E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


The authors discuss potential new capabilities for SHRs (self-healing ring architectures) using SONET add-drop multiplexers (ADMs) (i.e. fast automated changes to high-bandwidth office-to-office channels and a broadband, broadcast application) and a possible use of wavelength division multiplexing in SHRs to ensure smooth network growth and provide a very high-bandwidth point-to-point connection when the ADM SHR capacity is exhausted. They also discuss some planning and engineering concerns of employing these new types of SHR. It is concluded that more global planning methods will be needed to determine the optimal mix of SHR and the traditional hubbing architecture in the interoffice networks of the future.<<ETX>>


Introduction: Ascites defined as a pathological accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity is the initial manifestation of many systemic diseases. Conventional biochemical tests and cytology still pose a diagnostic dilemma in a large number of patients. We determined the levels of cholesterol, triglyceride and proteins in the ascitic fluid and serum of patients with ascites due to liver cirrhosis, abdominal tuberculosis and malignancy to find out whether these parameters could be used as tests in differentiating ascites due to the above mentioned causes. Material and Methods: This was a prospective study on 30 patients of ascites admitted in the medical and surgical wards of our institution between August 2014 and July 2015. Serum and ascitic fluid total protein, albumin, cholesterol and triglyceride levels were measured as were the serum ascitic albumin, protein, cholesterol and triglyceride gradients. Results: Serum ascites albumin gradient was higher in liver cirrhosis as compared to tuberculous and malignant ascites and this difference was highly significant ( P <0.001 in each). Serum and ascitic fluid triglyceride gradient was higher in malignant ascites as compared to that observed in liver cirrhosis and tuberculosis, the difference was statistically significant ( P <0.01). Highest levels of serum cholesterol were recorded in malignant ascites. Conclusion: Serum ascites albumin gradient is a good marker to differentiate between ascites due to liver cirrhosis and tubercular or malignant ascites. Serum and ascitic fluid triglyceride gradient and serum cholesterol levels are higher in malignancy as compared to tuberculosis or liver cirrhosis.


The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was required by the Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Conforming Amendments Act of 2005 (FDIRCAA) to study the feasibility and consequences of privatizing deposit insurance, establishing a voluntary deposit insurance system for deposits in excess of the maximum amount of FDIC insurance, and increasing the limit on deposit insurance coverage for municipalities and other units of general government. In February 2007, the FDIC sent its report to Congress. The results of the FDIC's findings on privatizing deposit insurance appeared in a previous issue of the FDIC Quarterly (available at http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/ quarterly/index.html).1 This article summarizes the FDIC's findings on establishing a voluntary deposit insurance system for excess deposits. The results of the FDIC's study on providing for increased coverage on municipal deposits will be presented in a future issue of the FDIC Quarterly.


With the development of society and the progress of civilization, vocabulary, the most active part in language, also sees the change. Although it has been long that there exists three word formations, i.e. newly-coined words, copied words and loan words both in Chinese and in English, some new trends have appeared. The present article conducts an exploration into them in three aspects.


This pilot study on the construction of socio-economic indicators was initiated by the SubCommittee on Social Science, Scientific Advisory Committee, of the GFCM. It was carried out in collaboration with FAO/FIPP and COPEMED. The study focussed on a particular GFCM management unit, the Alboran Sea, in the hope that results would be applicable to other GFCM management units and the Mediterranean as a whole. Although the research team encountered difficulties in terms of non-availability of certain data and delays in the development of sampling schedules, the study was useful in demonstrating the possibilities of developing indicators and of their application for building an understandting of main socioeconomic trends within a Mediterranean fisheries management unit.


The study was conducted to develop microwave baked potato chips and to evaluate the effect of microwave power, baking time and slice thickness on chemical and quality characteristics such as moisture, crude fat, protein content, sensory and overall acceptability (OAA) of potato chips. The local cultivar of potato was selected and cut in three different thicknesses 1±10% mm, 2±10% mm and 3±10% mm, respectively. Slices were baked at microwave power (60, 80, 100 watts) for (40, 50, 60sec). It was found that microwave power and baking time had significant (p<0.05) effects on crude fat and moisture content. For protein content the interaction of microwave power and baking time had non-significant (p>0.05) effect. The optimum conditions for best quality chips were found to be 100 W, 60sec and 3±10% mm thick slices. At this condition the values for crude fat, protein, moisture content and overall acceptability score were found to be 0.20%, 3.90%, 1.7% and 8.15 respectively.


The effects of plant spacing and number of bunches per stem of tomato plants vertically conducted with polypropylene cord were evaluated on fruit yield and quality. Experiments were carried out during the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 growing seasons, at Epagri-Cacador Experimental Station, Santa Catarina State, Brazil. The treatments consisted of a combination of three plant spacing (30, 45 and 60 cm), four topping heights (no topping, and topped at 5th, 7th and 9th bunch per stem) and the cultivars Debora Max and Nemo Netta in 2006/2007 and the cultivar Takii 92 in 2007/2008. Total, marketable and unmarketable yield, marketable mean weight, and the percentage of marketable and unmarketable fruits were evaluated. There was no significant interaction between cultivars, topping heights and plant spacing. Reduction in row plant spacing from 60 to 45 cm increased the marketable tomatoes from 15.2 to 17.2%, without affecting the fruit quality. The number of bunches per stem did not affect marketable yield.


The text of this article analyzes the processes of managing volunteers at social enterprises in Russia and India. Social enterprises are becoming more popular, but this type of organization remains poorly understood. Social entrepreneurship is a form of business that differs from an ordinary commercial enterprise in that. The goal of a social enterprise is not only to make a profit, but also to solve social problems. It is known that social enterprises involve volunteers in their work, however, the problems faced by representatives of social enterprises when working with volunteers are unknown.
The empirical basis of the work was an online survey of representatives of social enterprises from Russia and India. These countries were chosen due to the fact that it is in Russia and India that the sector of social entrepreneurship is currently developing. The focus of our article concerned such issues: what stages of working with volunteers are implemented in social enterprises, what problems they face when working with volunteers, and what processes can help minimize difficulties in working with volunteers.
Analysis of the data obtained showed that representatives of social enterprises in Russia and India are actively implementing the selection of volunteers, education and training of volunteers, and discussion of the results of work with volunteers. Among the most significant problems in working with volunteers, representatives of Russian social enterprises consider a high level of volunteer turnover and distrust of volunteers. Representatives of Indian social enterprises consider the insufficient level of training of volunteers, the high turnover of volunteers as significant problems in working with volunteers. Despite the differences in the processes of working with volunteers, representatives of social Russian and Indian enterprises believe that the training and education of specialists working with volunteers and the education and training of volunteers themselves can improve the quality of work with volunteers.
The analysis of work and management of volunteers is an extremely broad topic, the text of the article covers only some of its aspects, which were studied based on the results of the survey. The results of the study can be used by researchers for further work in the field of studying the processes of working with volunteers, and the results of the study can also be useful to those who are practitioners in the field of social entrepreneurship and social enterprises.


Abstract Khaw, HL. (2014). Cooperative and uniform fish? Social interactions and variability in live body weight in the GIFT strain (Nile tilapia, Oreochromic niloticus) in Malaysia. PhD thesis, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Social interactions are present everywhere in the living world. Such social interactions may lead to indirect genetic effects (IGE), which are heritable effects of an individual on trait values of the other individuals its interacts with. IGEs may affect the direction and magnitude of response to selection in breeding programs. Moreover, social interactions may affect variability of traits. In aquaculture, competition for resources inflates size variation within populations. In this thesis, we used the Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (GIFT; Oreochromis niloticus) strain to investigate the genetic basis for social interactions and variability in harvest weight for tropical finfish. Social interaction experiments were established for quantifying the genetic and non-genetic indirect effects on harvest weight in the GIFT strain. We found evidence for IGEs on harvest weight, and a negative direct-indirect genetic correlation, which suggesting heritable competitive interactions for harvest weight in GIFT. Hence, breeding schemes may need to be adapted to avoid an increase in competition. A stochastic simulation study was conducted to examine the effect of BLUP selection on the rate of inbreeding for socially affected traits. The rates of inbreeding for scenarios with IGEs were greater than for scenarios without IGE. Therefore, with IGEs there is a greater need for a selection algorithm that restricts the increase of mean kinship. In aquaculture industry, there is a wide range of commercial production environments, which may leads to genotype by environment (GxE) interaction, for example due to differential social interactions. The GIFT fish were tested in ponds and cages to study the GxE interaction. The genetic correlations between environments (0.73 to 0.85, for harvest weight and body measurements) indicate little GxE-interaction. The data collected from the social interaction experiments were also used to investigate the presence of genetic variation in uniformity for harvest weight. The genetic coefficient of variation for standard deviation of harvest weight (0.17) shows that uniformity of harvest weight is heritable and can be increased by selective breeding. In the General Discussion of this thesis, the uniformity study was extended to incorporate IGE. The result indicates that more cooperative fish are not necessary more uniform for harvest weight. Overall, our results suggest that genetic improvement in fish breeding programs can be increased by accounting for social interactions.


First it introduces the theory and method of information spreading estimation.Then with the observation data of the dam polluted by gross error,the method of information spreading estimation is used to estimate the parameter of the linear model.it indicates that information spreading estimation has better robustness with comparison of traditional minimum least square method.It has certain practicability and rationality in application of analyzing the observation data of dams.


The effects of seed-soaking with different concentrations of salicylic acid(SA) on the seed germination of insect-resistant cotton were studied.The results showed that low concentration of SA(0~0.2 mmol/L) could significantly increase the germination rate and germination potential of cotton seeds,and high concentration of SA(1.0 mmol/L) significantly suppressed the germination of cotton seeds.Under the same concentration of SA,the seed germination rate in the treatment whose seed-soaking time was 24 h was higher than that in the treatment whose seed-soaking time was 48 h.This experiment indicated that soaking the seeds of insect-resistant cotton with 0.2 mmol/L SA for 24 h was the best for the seed germination.


Four impressions of grasshoppers were discovered during investigations of fossil insects from the Ruby River Basin of Montana. The 4 specimens represent the first to be recorded from this locality. The fossils were found in paper shales of Oligocene age between Peterson and Morman Creeks, sec. 23, T. 7S; R.5 W., Madison County, Mont. The digging sites are located ca. 13 miles from the town of Alder, Mont. A brief description of the geologic history of this region can be found in a previous paper (Lewis 1971).


This paper deals with the seamless integration of doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) based wind energy conversion system (WECS) with local grid constituted by a permanent magnet based small hydrogenerator (PMHG). The seamless integration is carried out using a solid state static transfer switch (SSSTS). The WECS-PMHG system is operated using a coordinated control strategy based on modified notch filters. The modified notch filters are adopted for the computation of (a) sensorless speed and position of the DFIG rotor, (b) fundamental constituents of unbalanced/nonlinear load current and (c) filtered DFIG stator voltages and phase angle. Moreover, the notch filters are also used for mitigating the effects of unbalance/nonlinearity in load currents on the stator and rotor currents of DFIG as well as PMHG currents. Additionally, the control methodology ensures no power interaction between the WECS and the PMHG during the synchronization process. This enables transient-free WECS and PMHG currents. Further, the coordinated control regulates the amplitude and frequency of system voltages even amidst wide variations in wind speed and load. The DFIG stator and wind currents are injected at unity power factor with the system voltages, while the excitation requirement of the DFIG is met by its machine side converter. The validness of the control is demonstrated experimentally through a developed laboratory-scale test bench.


The research investigated CoVid-19 issues related to the adoption of school closures and social distancing measures from March 2020 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-school-closures#history), as they impacted on Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes leading to the recommendation for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) in England. A second national lockdown impacted ITE programmes from January 2021. The direct and immediate impact on the self-efficacy of ITE participants recommended for QTS in 2020 and 2021 is considered and the potential implications for their future teaching. Friedman and Kass (2002, p684) suggested a definition of teacher self-efficacy as a "teacher's perception of his or her ability to perform required professional tasks and to regulate relations involved in the process of teaching and educating students". Pre-validated questionnaires (Friedman & Kass, 2002; Tschannen-Moran & Hoyb, 2001) were adapted to incorporate trainee teachers' belief in their own capabilities responding to the challenges posed by disruption to ITE programmes due to anti Covid-19 measures. The research aimed to measure the impact on their ability to manage the consequences of change positively. The intended outcome was to support schools and new teachers by identifying short and long term remedial in-service training needs and successful distance learning strategies and materials for development. The findings draw on data from three on-line self-efficacy questionnaires returned by participants on ITE programmes at a large (approximately 500 students) Higher Education (HE) QTS provider in partnership with schools in the North West of England. Surveys were conducted at the end of 2019-20 ITE programmes, and both the beginning and end of the 2020-21 programmes. The questionnaire was associated with the research question:


Poor nutrition contributes substantially to global disease, diminishing the wellbeing of women and children in low and middle income countries, and better nutrition must be part of the universal health coverage agenda, say Rebecca Heidkamp and colleagues


This study aims to highlight the connection between Neuromanagement and human resource performance within the company, with an obvious impact on the overall performance of organizations. In this context, the answer to the general question must be identified: To what extent does neuromanagement influence organizational performance? The study aims to analyze the influence of Neuromanagement on human resource performance and overall performance of organizations in Romania, and the approach will consider building a complex research scenario, which will combine a quantitative empirical study with the use of research and neuroscientific methods, combining psychometric, biometric and neurometric techniques. The research topic addressed in this paper is relatively new, insufficiently explored by Romanian researchers; therefore the results of this study will most likely contribute to raising the level of understanding of the concepts presented and their practical applicability, in order to increase the performance of organizations in Romania.


—Digital watermarking plays an increasingly important role for proving authenticity and copyright protection. The Internet is an ideal medium for selling digital goods it also makes redistribution of pirated files very easy. Digital watermarking can be used to insert invisible data into an object helping to track down pirate copies and to prove rightful ownership in a dispute. In this paper we present a detailed survey of existing image watermarking techniques. We classify the techniques based on different domains in which data is embedded. The performances of these generations arepresented in terms of subjective results.


The dispersity and growth rate of colloid copper on quartz was studied as a function of the initial copper(II) complex concentration, nature of solid support, light flux intensity, and solvent composition. Changing the photolysis conditions allows preparation of compact optically transparent nanophase materials with prescribed polydispersity of precipitated colloids.


Abstract: The main purpose of this paper lies in the solution of a specific problem area, referred to as modeling dilemma. In doing so, two major and, hopefully, innovative claims can be made: First, the social sciences can be characterized by at least two pragmatically highly differentiated modeling approaches to the socio-economic ensembles which, in different degrees, offer complementary classes of information and which, moreover, increase the understanding of the complexities of these socio-economic universes. Second, these two major modeling approaches have become, by now, part and parcel of separate epistemic cultures which will, in a process of co-evolution, form major basins of attraction for future practices within the social sciences.;


Treatment of[RuII(2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)2(H2O)2]2+ with CeIV resulted in the formation of the dioxo-RuVI complex which was found to be an efficient catalyst for the oxidation of alkenes.


Though analysis of teacher learning research literacy overseas,this paper presents three periods during the teacher learning research development: primary period,rising period and deepening period.Meanwhile it outlines the main research aspects around different teacher learning ideas,teacher learning content,affecting factors,learningstrategies and modes.Finallythe paper points out four trends ofteacher learningresearch.


Archimedes tackled the size of the universe with grains of sand, and in the process found an entirely new system for large numbers.


The main purpose of the study is to investigate whether field dependency could predict students" mathematical problem solving in word and procedural mathematical problems and to explore whether this association remains significant when students" Mathematics anxiety and intelligent quotient (IQ) is controlled. So, we used data of 100 samples of guidance school girls and inferential statistical analysis (ANOVA and ANCOVA) for investigating the hypothesis of the study. Obtained results indicated that there were significant differences in students" mathematical performance in word and procedural problems by the groups of field dependency. Moreover, this difference is still significant when IQ and Mathematics anxiety as covariate variables were considered. However, the amount of omega square for ANCOVA analysis decreased when covariate variables inserted to the model. Findings of this study are suitable for researchers in field of psychology of learning Mathematics and who interested in how cognitive style affect students" performance in particular Mathematics.


The purposeof this studywas to testthat the costof educationaffects thequality
oflearning achievementthroughqualityteaching and learning processat
theStateJunior HighSchoolCity ofBandarLampung. The costof educationin this
studyfocusesonthe cost ofschooleducationbased on documentsobtained byAPBS.
Study samplewas 31Bandar Lampung junior high school.
Testscarried out usingsimplelinearregressionandmultiple linear regressions.
The results showedthat the costof educationaffects thequality oflearning
achievementthroughqualityteaching and learning process, while
theeducationalcomponent ofthe allocation ofcoststhat affect thequality oflearning
achievementis the cost ofresourcesand services,the cost ofteacher professional
development andstudent activitiesfee. Forcost allocationcomponentthat affectsthe
quality ofteaching and learningprocessareother costs, the cost ofteacher
professional development, resourcesand servicescosts, the cost of
providingteaching and learning processandthe costof student activities.


Development of the mathematical device convection-diffusion to models on example of the description of the spreading admixture in water reservoir, in which occurs convection-diffusion carrying admixture in combination with reversible sorption by exchange with bottom.


To improve existing ice accretion simulation codes, more data regarding ice roughness and its effects on convective heat transfer are required. To build on existing research on this topic, this study used the Vertical Icing Studies Tunnel (VIST) at NASA Glenn Research to model realistic ice roughness in the stagnation region of a NACA 0012 airfoil. Using the VIST, a test plate representing the leading 2% chord of the airfoil was subjected to flows of 7.62 m/s (25 ft/s), 12.19 m/s (40 ft/s), and 16.76 m/s (55 ft/s). The test plate was fitted with 3 surfaces, each with a different representation of ice roughness: 1) a control surface with no ice roughness, 2) a surface with ice roughness with element height scaled by 10x and streamwise rough zone width from the stagnation point scaled by 10x, and 3) a surface with ice roughness with element height scaled by 10x and streamwise rough zone width from the stagnation point scaled by 25x. Temperature data from the tests were recorded using an infrared camera and thermocouples imbedded in the test plate. From the temperature data, a convective heat transfer coefficient map was created for each case. Additional testing was also performed to validate the VIST's flow quality. These tests included five-hole probe and hot-wire probe velocity traces to provide flow visualization and to study boundary layer formation on the various test surfaces. The knowledge gained during the experiments will help improve ice accretion codes by providing heat transfer coefficient validation data and by providing flow visualization data helping understand current and future experiments performed in the VIST.


The aim of the present study was to evaluate associations between intestinal parasitic infection with intestinal and systemic inflammatory markers in school‐aged children with high rates of obesity. Plasma concentrations of C‐Reactive Protein (CRP), leptin, TNF‐α, IL‐6 and IL‐10 were measured as systemic inflammation markers and count of stool leukocytes as marker of intestinal inflammation in 291 children (6‐10 years). Intestinal parasitic infection was measured by stool examination. Logistic regression analyses were performed to determine the odds of having high inflammatory markers for each parasite or group of parasites as compared to parasite‐free children while adjusting for sex, age, mother's educational level and percentage of body fat. The prevalence of soil‐transmitted helminths and intestinal protozoa infections was 12% and 36%, respectively. Parasitic infection was not associated with CRP, IL‐6, IL‐10 or TNF‐α. Children infected with Ascaris lumbricoides (aOR: 5.91, 95% CI: 1.97‐17.70) and Entamoeba coli (aOR: 8.46, 95% CI: 2.85‐25.14) were more likely to have higher stool leucocytes than parasite‐free children. Children with multiple infections (aOR: 10.60, 95% CI: 2.85‐25.14) were more likely to have higher leptin concentrations than parasite‐free children. Intestinal parasitic infection was not associated with systemic inflammation, but was associated with intestinal inflammation. Having multiple infections were associated with higher leptin concentrations.


The triangular fuzzy numbers method was used to describe and deal with the randomness and fuzziness of water environment risk assessment.The Monte-Carlo method was applied to simulate the triangular fuzzy numbers for transforming the operations of triangular fuzzy numbers and their functions into the conventional operations of real numbers,and then a method,namely SS-TFN, coupling the stochastic simulation with triangular fuzzy numbers for risk assessment of water environment was established.The application shows that the quality state variable series of water environment system can be simulated using SSTFN through Monte-Carlo method,so that the computation is more easy and the result is more reasonable than that using cut technique.The schemes for managing water environment risks can be easily obtained by using SS-TFN through adjusting the control parameter expressing the quality state variable of water environment system.


Extramedullary hematopoiesis (EMH) is a rare phenomenon, and represents infiltration and proliferation of myeloid, erythroid, and megakaryocytic cells in non-bone marrow sites. Extramedullary hematopoiesis (EMH) is normal during fetal life, but after birth, the presence of EMH is considered to be abnormal.  EMH has been associated with CML (chronic myeloid leukaemia). Lymph node is the most common site of involvement, other sites being the abdomen (liver, spleen) and thorax (bone, mediastinum) but very rarely in the gynecological tract. Here authors report a case of a 20-year young female, a known case of CML who presented with abdominal pain with hemoperitonium, with negative urine pregnancy test. Initially hemorrhagic corpus luteal cyst was thought to be the cause of hemoperitonium and patient was taken for surgery wherein histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of extra medullary hematopoiesis of ovary. Women with CML when presents with hemoperitoneum, extramedullary hematopoiesis should be a differential diagnosis apart from rupture ectopic and other causes of spontaneous hemoperitoneum.  Patient was started on imatinib after diagnosis and is doing well.


Dibenzo[a,o]perylene (helianthrene=HEL), known to be a very reactive singlet molecular oxygen ( 1 O 2 , 1 Δ g ) acceptor, also reacts with molecular oxygen in its triplet ground state ( 3 O 2 , 3 Σ g - ) to form helianthrene endoperoxide (HELPO). The thermal endoperoxide formation was studied in several solvents at room temperature


We consider the propagation of waves in a stratified non-isothermal magnetic atmosphere. The situation of interest corresponds to waves in the outer solar (chromosphere and corona) and other stellar atmospheres. The waves are simulated by using a high-resolution, well-balanced finite-volume-based massively parallel code named SURYA. Numerical experiments in both two and three space dimensions involving realistic temperature distributions, driving forces, and magnetic field configurations are described. Diverse phenomena such as mode conversion, wave acceleration at the transition layer, and driving-dependent wave dynamics are observed. We obtain evidence for the presence of coronal Alfvén waves in some three-dimensional configurations. Although some of the incident wave energy is transmitted into the corona, a large proportion of it is accumulated in the chromosphere, providing a possible mechanism for chromospheric heating.


Okra [Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench] is known by many names in different parts of the world. It is called lady's finger in England, gumbo in United States of America, guinogombo in Spain, guiberio in Portugal and bhindi in India, being native of tropical and sub-tropical Africa. It belongs to Malvaceae family. It is one of the priced vegetables grown throughout the country as summer and kharif crop in all type of soil particularly in the state of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat. It is important vegetable crop of Gujarat state. Okra is essentially a native of Africa but wild types have also been found in India. Okra is an allopolyploid, with 2n = 73 to 130 chromosome numbers and genome size ranged from 3897 Mbp to 17321 Mbp. It is an often International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 7 Number 02 (2018) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com